This video shows Israeli barbarism. Anyone in the US doing what Israelis do to Palestinians would be charged and jailed for criminal behavior and shunned for their lack of humanity. But we permit this, because why?

Israelis fearful of delegitimization?

They should be, because the day is coming soon when the entire US will react with revulsion. Give it two years.

But Ella Baker was born in 1904, and started her civil rights activism when she was 16 [I think she already at Howard University but don’t hold me to it…I don’t feel like scouring my computer to get the details] in 1920, nine years before MLK was born.

When MLK was 11 years old, Baker was excoriating the NAACP in Harlem (1940) for their lack of effort, and faulting them for using the wrong approach. She advocated non-violence, and she did not agree with diminishing the efforts of rich white women in fur coats who were drawn to the movement. She said we need these people, they are a bridge. She was fiercely independent in her thinking and strategy.

One of her phrases was, “Strong people don’t need strong leaders.” Another, “Martin didn’t make the movement. The movement made Martin.”

MLK came to prominence within the movement in 1954. He was a man: acceptable. But understand the times. She was black and a woman. The femaleness of herself was more of detriment to her prominence than her blackness.

The recorded interviews with the original civil rights figures of the 60s in Charles Payne’s book are a testament to her greatness. She organized the Freedom Riders, founded all the major alphabets of the civil rights movement, like SNCC, and organized the lunchroom protesters. She trained every single one of the civil rights lights that we remember.

After the Civil Rights Act was passed, few Americans knew the history of what Blacks had been through, nor did they care. So Coretta king was free to craft one that they could believe. Because of that wonderful speech, most Americans are willing to believe that MLK was the driving force behind the movement. He was not. She was. She is given short shrift because she was quiet, level-headed, and effective. And a woman.

But every single civil rights poobah still alive in the 1990s as Charles Payne recorded them for his book treats her as the singular god of their movement. Their deep reverence and awe is real.

Americans are taught that Rosa Parks was a little old lady who got on the bus, and was really tired and sat in the first available seat that just happened to be a white seat. And she just sat down because she was tired. We know that was complete nonsense. She was an activist, and it was done in order to provoke.

Bravo! He’s informed.

Rosa Parks was working for Ella Baker, the real leader of the civil rights movement, not MLK. Baker taught Parks how to agitate through peaceful means, as Baker taught thousands of activists at the time. MLK never did. Historian Charles Payne documented this with recorded history in his memorable 1998 book I’ve Got the Light of Freedom.

MLK’s legacy was a concoction of Coretta King, his widow, who campaigned hard during the 70s for the MLK holiday Reagan signed into being in 1983. I remember Coretta King’s efforts well.

he did not “win” the election. He “won” the Electoral College which has been corrupted by years of Koch brothers and friends building on the aristocratic insecurities and rural biases of our founding patriarchs.

No. He won the election. Fair and square. The way people have been winning the presidential election for 227 years.

The Electoral College is Article 2 of the Constitution. The Electoral College elects the president and vice-president, not the popular vote, otherwise candidates would concentrate their efforts in the most populous areas and ignore the majority of the nation.

You can say you don’t like it. Fair enough. But to claim he didn’t win it properly is not facing reality. Candidates craft their election strategies to win Electoral College votes, not population numbers. Trump had 1.6 million fewer votes than Hillary, didn’t he, something like that. But he didn’t campaign in Manhattan where the votes were, where Hillary cleaned up. Or LA. Or Chicago. He campaigned in the Great Lakes states and Pennsylvania where the electoral votes were, and got what he had to win to lock up the election the way the Constitution states, which Clinton couldn’t pull off.

If Trump were to keep Victoria Nuland anywhere near the corridors of power, it would be proof positive he’s a neocon in sheep’s clothing.

I think we have escaped WWIII by not electing Hillary. Her only real power as a president would have been foreign policy–as Head of State complete power to act on her own–provided she didn’t sign any treaties which require a 2/3 vote in the Senate. She was a warmonger who wanted to poke the Russian bear aggressively, and put a no-fly zone over Syria which would have escalated the entire region into a real war zone. She crafted the Ukrainian disaster and ouster of a democratically elected president (“regime change”) with Nuland. And she wanted to continue the austerity programs that have so badly damaged the middle class and poor domestically since 2008. Good riddance to her. The Clinton era is dead and I couldn’t be happier.

I also think all this mewling about Trump is premature and hyperbolic. I urge all of you to read Scott Alexander’s article “YOU ARE STILL CRYING WOLF.”http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/
Alexander is a pseudonym for a practicing midwest doctor who has really unpleasant things to say about Trump but calls out the commentary about him in trenchant and clearly defined terms. Dr. Rothschild would do well to read it.

The Muslim Registry called NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) was created on Sept 10, 2002. It was an abysmal failure, but Obama didn’t get rid of it, did he.

The program had three parts.

First, it required non-citizens to register when they entered the US — a process that included fingerprinting, photo taking and interrogation.

Second, it mandated that these people, as well as others already in the US, register and regularly check in with immigration officials. [This requirement has been in place for all green card recipients from time immemorial, but only once a year.]

Third, it kept track of those leaving the country to make sure that temporary guests did not remain illegally. Violators were arrested, fined and even deported.

All males 16 years of age or older from 25 countries were forced to register.

Although no religious groups were explicitly targeted, all but one was a Muslim-majority country.

Federal courts previously found the NSEERS program constitutional, but they also warned that they would reach a different conclusion if there were evidence that the program was based on religious animus. . . .

And in the aftermath of 9/11, courts were willing to accept NSEERS as an emergency stopgap. Today, however, the United States has an automated entry-exist system for all foreign visitors (US-VISIT), rendering the NSEERS registration process “redundant, inefficient, and unnecessary,” according to the Department of Homeland Security’s own assessment.